About CWR

Crop wild relatives are the wild ‘cousins’ of our cultivated crops. In the same way that the wolf is related to the dog, CWR are related to our food plants.

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The Project

The project Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: “Collecting, Protecting and Preparing Crop Wild Relatives” aims to collect important species of crop wild relatives, ensure their long-term conservation, and facilitate their use in breeding new, improved crops.

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This Project has led to the development of a number of tools and resources for people interested in collecting, conserving and using crop wild relatives in breeding.

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Global Crop Diversity Trust
Platz Der Vereinten Nationen 7
53113 Bonn, Germany

Phone: +49 (0) 228 85427 122

A Sunflower Story

Published : June 11, 2020 - 11:09 AM

Early this year, the Crop Trust’s Luis Salazar visited Argentina, where our Crop Wild Relatives Project pre-breeding partners from the National Agricultural Technology Institute (INTA in the Spanish acronym) are evaluating hundreds of new crosses between wild and domesticated sunflowers, searching for resistance against three of the most harmful diseases affecting global production. Luis’s slideshow gives you a taste of his trip deep into the Argentinian pampas.

A Sunflower Story

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